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The day the US Navy tried to sink its own supercarrier

In the summer of 2021, the U.S. Navy carried out one of the most extreme tests ever performed on a modern warship when a ...

Explosion triggered near new US Navy aircraft carrier during shock trials registered as 3.9 magnitude earthquake

Videos of the blast set off near USS Gerald R. Ford show what the Navy put its new carrier through.
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Explosion in test of Navy aircraft carrier registers as 3.9 magnitude earthquake

PONCE INLET, Fla. — The U.S. Navy set off a massive explosion in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday as part of a test to ensure a new aircraft carrier is hardened to withstand battle conditions. The blast ...

New US Navy supercarrier withstood the shock of multiple 40,000-pound bomb blasts, but some things did break, captain says

"We did break things, but we will fix them," Capt. Paul Lanzilotta, the USS Gerald R. Ford's commanding officer, said.
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Navy exonerates 256 Black sailors unjustly punished in 1944 after a deadly California port explosion

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who were found to be unjustly punished in 1944 following a horrific port explosion that killed hundreds of service members and exposed ...
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Navy Chief Sacrificed His Life and Earned the Medal of Honor Saving 123 Sailors During the Battle of the Coral Sea

Chief Watertender Oscar V. Peterson spent 21 years at sea before May 7, 1942, when Japanese bombs turned the USS Neosho into ...